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The greatest thing about Reddit is finding information on any old topic. For today, I wanted to dig deeper into My Dinner With Andre. RIF tried to open (he's such a trooper 😒) and when that failed I went to the browser.

I really want nothing to do with supporting that site, but I do want to read these old discussions. Any advice?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

uBlock Origin and uBlock extension combined give really good ad blocking alone. Combine it with a DNS solution in your router like AdGuard and you won't have to deal with ads at all.

Simultaneously gives the middle finger to reddit because they live on ads.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You're still a MAU statistic that they will sell upon their IPO

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

+1 for ublock origin πŸ™

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just stop going to the site. It’s that simple.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly though proper ad blocking while continuing to use it will actually cost them money.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

True, but they're going to take whatever numbers they can use to plug the IPO. So even just visiting the site lets them claim traffic hasn't fallen much.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use Browser extensions to block all ads and trackers, don't log in to your account. As an anonymous IP visiting the site you're almost useless for them because you give them almost no data to sell to advertisers.

Works best with Firefox and uBlockOrigin and some tracker blockers like Privacy Badger. Also works on mobile since Firefox on mobile also supports extensions, however, the Reddit mobile experience is trash, whether you are in a browser or use their shitty app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then can still get some information off your IP address like geolocation for example

You could use a VPN for that

Also change your browser user agent with user agent switcher to something useless to them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

When you get to a Reddit thread via Google or other search engines you can request a cached version of it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You can use the Web Archive, if those posts are saved, you'll see it without ever touching a reddit server. You can't comment or give awards or anything, but you're not locked out completely.

Or you can use a 3rd party app. The team behind Youtube Revanced have patched most of the major (Android) ones to still function afterwards. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705025421/https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterVanced/comments/14m3wgo/reddit_apps_for_which_patches_andor_patched/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

http://mlmym.org/ mimics old Reddit and just pulls through any Lemmy instance you're using, so you don't have to change anything you're already doing and it feels like home. if you like it, please spread it, I only found it because somebody mentioned it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm really new to all this. It's asking for a domain and when I put Reddit, it pops an error. How does it work...?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

I pretty sure it just makes lemmy look like reddit, which isn't what OP is asking for.

It's asking for a lemmy domain to pull into an old reddit like ui.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

make an account on lemmy.world then tell it that's what you're using.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That link is only for Lemmy instances (e.g., Lemmy.world, Beehaw.org). I entered "Beehaw.org" into the field and it worked fine.

I think the previous poster thought the OP wanted a Lemmy instance but to have it look just like Old Reddit (which this does). If you want Reddit content without going to Reddit, maybe Libreddit works (I think that's the name of the site). Tedd.it i believe will.shut down on August 1, but you can try them.for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think this is the opposite of what OP wants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bummer - doesn't work for kbin... might be something as simple as the change from /c/ in community urls on lemmy to the /m/ magazine urls on kbin. Any chance they have a github or a contributor page to report a bug? Not seeing any on the initial interface.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry, I'm not associated with them, was just linked this morning and stoked. More people that know the better. I hope they can patch your instance in!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries - thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

RiF is still working for me, but I can't log in. Just a couple of taps to check out my old subs. The pain of it reminds me to keep a distance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Louis Malle is a boss, just thought I’d start with that.

But what did you even want that you could t get on IMDb or Wikipedia? There are plenty of places besides Reddit to chat about film

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are there? IMDb killed its boards like 10 years ago. I am unaware of other large scale movie discussion boards, Reddit has really taken that spot for me.

Whenever I finished a tv series it was nice closure to go through its subreddit and see all the takes, things I missed, etc. Old style media or just marter-of-factly summarizing the plot just doesn't go as far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly what usually do as soon as I’m caught up. See the theories and missed connections for TV and book series.

I hope this will eventually also kick off here. For tech news, memes and doomscrolling lemmy is already full enough for my taste, but the casual users deep in fandoms have not arrived, yet, at least not in scale.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think I've ever seen a movies or TV community in my "all" scrolling. Lots of old memes tho.

[–] agentshags 1 points 1 year ago

You realize you can create communities, right? They might not take off right away, but what do you have to lose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In case you're looking, there's this one, and probably others on the same instance (I am not subscribed, but counted like 8 posts within the past 24 hours, so probably enough traffic to start a discussion if you want): https://lemmy.film/c/moviesandtv

Edit: or [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, bot, but I personally have had better luck putting the full URL in my instance's search bar. The version starting in "!" comes up when someone on my instance is already subscribed to the community, but sometimes not if I'm the first one interested. But I will edit with the other version as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Moviechat.org exists as the perfect substitute for the IMDb boards, it even has the old IMDb threads for all movies, series, etc. Check it out!

The boards were killed in 2017, so nowhere near 10 years ago, but it indeed feels longer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use an app from F-Droid called Stealth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Geddit is another.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A lot of people edited and deleted old posts before vacating Reddit. Even if what you want were possible, the posts might no longer be there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you visit the site with an adblocker, I don't see what revenue they would get.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

None, but they do get a +1 on page views and other use metrics. It's not a big deal, but it's more than nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

libreddit.hu is a good alternative Reddit frontend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I am using rtv, run with my own API key. https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think that there is anyway to do that, since the apis are closed. If you use some scraper, then it would still generate revenue for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

use reddit mod apk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now, and this probably won't work forever, I'm hosting an instance of Libreddit, which is effectively an alternative front end to Reddit. In lieu of that, the Internet Archive is probably your next best bet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i m getting 429 too many request more than likely.. so i wondered if its me or my network

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine's still trucking somehow, but I'm not using a public instance, so maybe somehow the smaller ones are flying under the radar? Probably not, but for now I'll enjoy the fact that it's still working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i see isee, good to know. I will keep searching for working instance. but really i don't use reddit that much this days.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

https://browse.feddit.de/ This will show you every community there is on Lemmy. It won't help with the old discussions, but may help you find some new communities you didn't know about. I find it best to either just scroll through the list as is, or if using the search bar, to type maybe half the word I'm looking for and give it a few seconds to search.

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